Wayne Rash

By now you’ve seen a lot of predictions for the wonderful things that will happen in the year 2020. This is partly because we’ve reached the point where technology changes are compounding by building on each other. But it’s also partly because the idea of “2020” grabs the imagination because it sounds cool. The challenge […]

My first encounter with McLaren took place at a racetrack north of Atlanta a few days before I covered a CanAm race in 1970. Like all race cars, this McLaren was a little rough around the edges, but when the engine was started it was as if the sound of glory had opened the heavens. […]

At first glance, the Iridium 9575 Extreme isn’t particularly impressive. In fact, it resembles the earliest handheld cell phones of 20 years ago, what with its black finish, the large external antenna and the relatively small screen. But looks can be deceiving. In reality, this Iridium phone can reach the company’s 66 satellites circling nearly […]

Beginning Dec. 2, T-Mobile began lighting up its nationwide 5G network. The company said that its 5G network will reach more than 200 million people in over 5,000 cities and towns in the United States. According to the company, the initial launch will cover over 1 million square miles. The company was able to switch […]

If you’ve been anywhere near a television over the last month and a half, you know what to expect from the iPhone 11 Pro when you pick it up. There on the back is a cluster of three cameras arranged in a triangle. This is similar in concept to the lens arrangement on the Bell […]

The audience at the recent NetEvents conference in San Jose snapped to alertness when Ted Ross, CEO of Spycloud, told them to stop changing their passwords so often. In fact, Ross said, passwords should be left alone unless you know that they’ve been breached. The reason, he explained, is because people tend to pick passwords […]

You’ve seen the 5G hype. It’s hard to escape, what with TV commercials, radio spots and email ads pitching it, and with too many articles in too many places making it sound like this wonderful new form of high-speed communication is on your doorstep. And to some extent it is, provided you’re located in one […]

AUSTIN, Texas – I walked through the exhibit space at the SpiceWorld conference here, and in booths scattered about, I saw appliance after appliance promising a solution to one security problem after another. One would trap phishing emails, according to the people there. Another would solve your authentication problems. Still another would look for malware of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–You’d never guess that the nondescript townhouse on a leafy street near the White House held what is one of the most effective federal agencies in this town. But once you enter, your attention is immediately drawn to the casually-dressed staff meeting around a coffee table, and to another group working on communal tables […]

Over the past four years, the cost of internet crime has topped $7 billion, according to the FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report. And that’s just the crimes that have been reported to the FBI. Steven D’Antuono, the FBI’s Financial Crimes Section chief, says there are a lot more that go unreported and that’s a problem. […]